Sat., May 22: Those Darlins retool hometown show to help bandmate

Those Darlins play Mercy Lounge on May 22 (photo: Travis Huggett/230 Publicity).

While it’s proven easy for fans and critics to get fixated on Those Darlins’ classic country flair, it’s probably easiest (and most accurate) to label the local trio as a punk group, pure and simple — see their raucous rendition of the Carter Family’s “Who’s That Knockin’ at My Window” (video after the jump) for an example.

We’re reminded of this as the band has now joined forces with local punk blog Nashville’s Dead for what was initially planned as a pair of shows in Nashville and Memphis, sharing a bill with a number of D.I.Y./house show standouts: So Jazzy, Natural Child and Pujol.

The Nashville show, scheduled for Saturday, May 22 at the Mercy Lounge (1 Cannery Row, 251-3020), will still go on as planned, but with a slight change. Bandmember Nikki Darlin took a spill at the Nelsonville Music Festival in Ohio, breaking both bones in her left forearm; the show will now be a fundraiser for her surgery bills, with the Darlins sans-Nikki playing as she recovers through June. The Memphis part of that show double-shot has been canceled.

Saturday's 18-and-older show kicks off at 9 p.m., and tickets are $10.